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11 Aug 09

Allons Gai: Be-Boy magazine in French « A Face Made for Radio: Helen McCarthy's Blog

  • The Anime Encyclopedia points out that porn usually leads mainstream genres in the adoption of new delivery technologies. Japan usually leads Europe and America in just the same way.
01 Apr 09

Trendspotting in Post-Consumer Japan

  • The "downward shift" of popular culture towards working class values and narratives could be said to be the most significant cultural trend of the last five years, but again, this is not a trend narrative anyone wants to hear.
  • Unless the economy recovers dramatically, there is no reason to believe the two major narratives of cultural change in Japan — the erosion of conspicuous consumer spending and the rise of working class tastes amongst the middle class — will come to an end.
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23 Feb 09

社団法人 日本雑誌協会 (magazine circulation data for 2008)

Circulation data for magazines from October 2007 to September 2008, including the manga magazines (scroll through the list on the left for 'comikku')

www.j-magazine.or.jp/...index.html - Preview

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Manga magazine circulations for 2008

  • The Japan Magazine Publishers Association has published their manga magazine data for 2008. And what do the numbers say… Things look bleak for magazines as numbers for most sectors are down.
  • Look at all those seinen mags and how strong most of them are. The more experimental the designs and the content the lower the sales. I’ve always thought it was strange that seinen hasn’t caught on here, but then again the manga revolution of a couple year’s back was also a revolution against the seinen manga that dominated the much smaller manga scene a decade prior.
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